How Sarah Blasko conquers every mountain

The three-time ARIA Award-winner lets it all out via her music.
Black backdrop for a head and shoulders shot of a young woman with red hair, fringed and parted in the middle. She is three-quarters on, looking to the right of the photographer and not smiling. Sarah Blasko.

Gigging since the 1990s as a member of Sydney folk rock group Acquiesce and then, briefly, electro outfit Sorija before releasing her debut solo album, The Overture & the Underscore, in 2004, multiple ARIA Award-winning Sarah Blasko knows gigging deep down in her bones.

Launching into a regional tour in February, Blasko will champion the new album, less a confessional and more an exorcism of her much-discussed break from Sydney’s infamous Hillsong Church. “Each time I put a record out, the headline of every story is always something to do with religion,” she half-jokes.

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Stephen A Russell is a Melbourne-based arts writer. His writing regularly appears in Fairfax publications, SBS online, Flicks, Time Out, The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and Metro magazine. You can hear him on Joy FM.